Karl Barth
At the end of World War I, Barth issued the call for neo-orthodoxy in
Protestantism. He counted culture with caesarism, associated faith in man, reason, and
progress with idolatry. Barth made a radical distinction between faith and religion and
taught that the Christian gospel creates faith but not religion. This narrow minded bigotry and intolerance is still seen today in the worst of the evangelical churches that deny the power of the Holy Ghost, many right-wing puritan groups and extreme fundamentalist denominations.
Karl Barth was a Swiss theologian and a teacher of fundamentalism in its most
destructive form. Barth and Emil Brunner both focused on the proposition that God can be
known only through the word as found in the Bible. Barth blindly insisted that
apart from the Word there is no knowledge of God. He was part of the Fundamentalist -
Modernist controversy.
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